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Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...

The Theories of Freud, Adler and Jung

extremely primitive (Sigmund Freuds theories). The final element of the personality as described by Freud is the superego, which r...

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

Piaget/Preschoolers' Capacity for Reading and Math

few vital facts about the way preschoolers learn," as well as the possible negative effects of pushing children "too hard too soon...

Conditioning and Theory

the conditioned stimulus were removed and only the neutral stimulus presented, the same unconscious response that occurred when th...

Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

Wal-Mart Organizational Culture

(Biesada 2009). Sam Waltons heirs still hold a 40 percent share of the company (Biesada 2009), which gives the family the controll...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

TRAIT LEADERSHIP THEORY: ARE LEADERS BORN?

a person who "exceeded" other members in his group through intelligence, scholarship, dependability, activity and social participa...

Eysenck And Bandura: Comparison Of Personality Theories

illustrates that while there is indeed merit to his conjecture, it nonetheless does not reflect the only manner by which human per...

Nursing Theory Sites

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Social Work Practice Based Cognitive-Behavioral Theory

inasmuch as cognitive therapy distinctly addresses the spatial and temporal elements of human existence. Cognitive restructuring ...

Creativity, Systems Theory, Problem Solving

reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...

Gardner and Sternberg: Theories of Intelligence

practical facet, which is how the individuals intelligence "adapts to their current environment," shapes that environment, or even...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Its Impact on Traditional Organizational Behavior and Critical Management Perspectives

means to motivate employees for many years. However, it has drawn criticism, because there is "little evidence to support its stri...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Piaget's Theories

be identified by weeding through his autobiography combined with other sources, including Gruber (1996) and others. These stages a...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Jenkins and Barthes on Rereading

consumers who become "fans" of a certain film, TV series, or book and subsequently reread it multiple times. Rather than lose inte...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Leadership Theories And Personality Traits Of Effective Leaders

created the field of consulting" (Sullivan 2005, p. B06). In an interview in 2004, Drucker said that successful leaders begin by ...

Three Theories on Aging Compared

different aging theories, i.e., what causes the aging process. Three such theories are discussed in this essay: The Wear and Tear ...